Eskom has started piloting a national demand response programme in the small commercial and residential sectors.
Eskom explained that the Demand Response Programme provides the System Operator with flexibility and reliability to maintain adequate daily operating reserve margins. “Demand response is catered for in the daily operating reserves of the System Operator — even during times of surplus capacity — as part of normal system operations,” Eskom stated.Eskom warned that load providers are given relatively short notification times to cut power when required, and the load reduction can be sustained for several hours per event.
An ALP is any entity that can aggregate, control, and measure electrical load from multiple sources and provide this bulk load to the System Operator to be dispatched.For the pilot, the ALP must be registered as an Eskom vendor to participate in the Demand Response Programme.
I’m shooting myself in the foot, but our townhouse complex has not had any loadshedding since October 2022. Apparently due to an “important person” buying a house. How important can a person be, in a R1.3m townhouse? Corruption is rife…